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Author Topic: Percussion Caps  (Read 1415 times)

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Re: Percussion Caps
« Reply #15 on: March 06, 2023, 06:13:00 PM »
10 bricks of CCI Caps?
You getting ready to fight a war or something? :scared:
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PS:  RE:  RWS caps at $0.99 per hundred.  Yeah, Jim, I am getting kinda long in the tooth.  But I am not done yet.

Caps are that scarce around here, I can probably move 10 bricks by the tin at  1 rondy!
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Re: Percussion Caps
« Reply #16 on: March 06, 2023, 07:33:51 PM »
And to think when I was paying a dollar for a tin of 100 caps (many years ago) / I thought that was highway robbery!!!  :Doh!

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Re: Percussion Caps
« Reply #17 on: March 06, 2023, 07:44:39 PM »
99 cents a tin, boy I remember those days. RWS, CCI or REM $9.99 for a paper roll of 10 tins.
That was back when Goex was $9 a pound. and everybody had some for sale.
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Re: Percussion Caps
« Reply #18 on: March 06, 2023, 07:57:05 PM »
Ain't we all just showing our age?
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Re: Percussion Caps
« Reply #19 on: March 06, 2023, 08:07:25 PM »
Showing or sharing our age?
I'm  not  H/C or P/C or even a particularly  good shot but I have a hell of a good time!

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Re: Percussion Caps
« Reply #20 on: March 06, 2023, 08:57:40 PM »
Or bragging that your still suckn air!
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Re: Percussion Caps
« Reply #21 on: March 07, 2023, 09:45:25 AM »
Or bragging that your still suckn air!

Hell, I remember when rainbows were in black & white.

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Re: Percussion Caps
« Reply #22 on: March 07, 2023, 01:12:59 PM »
Ain't we all just showing our age?

Well, we can't afford to go to the Range anymore - we have to do something...  :laffing
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Re: Percussion Caps
« Reply #23 on: March 10, 2023, 02:29:40 PM »
99 cents a tin, boy I remember those days. RWS, CCI or REM $9.99 for a paper roll of 10 tins.
That was back when Goex was $9 a pound. and everybody had some for sale.

Huh?  30 years ago it was $4.50 or up to $5 depending on where you bought it.  That was in Oregon.

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Re: Percussion Caps
« Reply #24 on: March 11, 2023, 03:40:44 PM »
I very rarely fire percussions and rely on flintlocks for everything.  Many years ago I picked up a "brick" of CCI primers for a very reasonable price.  Already had a few hundred left over from the '60s.  Then I came into a few hundred musket caps to round things out.  So I have a modest stash of caps and won't need any more likely for a good while.  Flintlocks are just so simple to feed and fire.
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Re: Percussion Caps
« Reply #25 on: March 12, 2023, 01:14:31 AM »
99 cents a tin, boy I remember those days. RWS, CCI or REM $9.99 for a paper roll of 10 tins.
That was back when Goex was $9 a pound. and everybody had some for sale.

Huh?  30 years ago it was $4.50 or up to $5 depending on where you bought it.  That was in Oregon.

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Ya I guess I do remember around $5-6 a pound. There was a place in town that was a repair center for RCBS and he'd get us caps for $5 a 1000 somtimes.

I came across a guy in a little shop in Ironwood MI several years ago that had a bunch of musket caps that somebody ordered and never picked up. When I showed an interest he said if I got them out of there I could have them for $3 a tin. I took all 12.
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